The second walk-off win of the season is a great way to start the second half

Remember earlier in the season when I compared the Rattlers offense to the offense of the Badger Basketball team?

It happened again.

Nothing from the Stang hit in the third to the double by Tyler Roberts in the eighth.

Then, the lid came off

Roberts took a little bit of a chance on the grounder to the left side after the double, but he made it.

Mittelstaedt stays hot with an RBI single in the eighth. 1-for-2 with a pair of walks. He’s 12-for-23 since June 14.

Once Walker got on in the ninth, you could sense the Rattlers had a great shot to win that game.

Romero with a very nice stint as a pinch runner and a nice Dave Roberts impression.

He steals second to get into scoring position and Dennis – with his Bill Meuller impression – singled Romero home with the tying run.

Let’s go through the last few pitches of the final plate appearance for Roberts: On the 2-1 pitch, he chased a fastball up in his eyes; on the next pitch, he got just enough of an inside pitch to stay alive in the at bat. On the next pitch, Roberts lined a pitch to right (opposite field for those of you at home) for the game winning sac fly.

Oh, and his double to right in the eighth…also to right.

That doesn’t excuse the bad throw that let the River Bandits score their first run in the fifth inning…But, it sure makes up for it.

Brooks Hall’s unofficial pitch count (82 pitches, 48 strikes) just looks weird. I thought that he was in the strike zone more than that, but, I triple checked my math…

He got into trouble in the 6th when he walked Cody Stanley on four straight pitches and gave up a two-out, two-run double to Jonathan Rodriguez on a 3-1 pitch. That put the Rattlers down 3-1.

There was a 92 a few times on the pitch speed indicator for Hall.

There was a 96 a lot of times for Carlos Martinez, the Quad Cities Starter tonight.

Kudos to Brian Garman! Three scoreless no hits, two walks, four strikeouts and the win.

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